Naeem Ashraf

A mechanical engineer
by profession Naeem Ashraf retired from Army as a Colonel. Besides earning a
master’s in Business Management he acquired BSc (Honors) in War Studies
Leadership and Management. Since four decades Ashraf has been a keen reader of philosophy,
fiction and poetry. After his retirement Ashraf started writing book reviews,
articles and essays in national dailies. His flair for writing lead him to
choose a comparatively hard path of fiction translation. His translated short stories
book: Trespass was published by Sang e Meel Publications – Lahore in
2016. His second book; an anthology of short stories written by contemporary
writers from Pakistan is in pipeline. He also has to his credit Urdu
translation of Elif Shafak’s famous novel The
Forty Rules of Love.He lives in Rawalpindi
- Pakistan.